Op-Ed: The Tories annual black and white fund-raising dinner has been stuffing yet more cash into Conservative coffers.

If you have fallen for Tory spin in the UK regarding the Labour party funding and party links with Unions here are a few things to consider.

If the Unions really had as much power as MSM such as the Telegraph would like you to believe how come we are not all living off the fat of the land?

Labour struggles like most political parties to raise the money needed to field candidates in elections let alone win campaigns. The only party swimming in money is the Conservative.

The Tories get payback big style from tax avoiders and big business; yes that party is about giving such groups of people the best deal and not you.

In 2014 we reported "News that a Tory summer party in the UK drew super-rich supporters with a total wealth of £11bn should be no surprise. It was held in June 2013 and no doubt the Tories have similar summer events scheduled for 2014. These people have a vested interest in returning a Tory majority government in 2015 but do you?"

It seems many people in the UK felt they had and the Tories won the GE 2015 but remember they only have a 12 seat majority in the Commons and were helped along by our British non-proportional representation style of voting.

Election campaigns such as in 2015 and run by foreigner Lynton Crosby, now an honorary Sir for services rendered to the Tory party and not the country, cost a great deal of money.

The Tory front bench in the Commons is often called millionaires row due to the personal, sometimes inherited, wealth of those whose bottoms are parked there.

Labour is running raffles at a £1 a ticket to help raise funds but once again the Tories are raising tons of cash sometimes by fair means other times by foul.

Rules relating to money raised can and are circumvented.

In 2013 the "Summer party seating plan at the Guardian - The prime minister's table Sponsored by Howard Shore (£1000 per head) - At least £1,545,470,588 in combined wealth at the table. There were 450 attendees in total."

Why some hard-up working class Brits feel drawn to the Tories always escapes me. Is it a feeling of being a little higher up the pecking order if you are at Tory? Is it that they simply swallow Tory spin hook-line-and-sinker?

This year according to the Telegraph Tory Cabinet Ministers were spared being auctioned at the money-raising dinner.

Inflation may be low in the UK but for 2016 donors paid up to "£15,000 a table to attend the event at The Brewery in Central London."

Political funding rules are circumvented easily by - "Auction lots included four election posters which sold for £50,000 - including a copy of the Conservative's 1979 poster, 'Labour isn't working' signed by Margaret Thatcher and the party's winning 2010 'Fire up the Quattro' campaign poster, which portrayed the David Cameron as the TV detective Gene Hunt from the BBC series Ashes to Ashes."

Perhaps I should offer the Labour party my Gone with the Wind poster from a similar time period; instead of Rhett Butler and Miss Scarlett the poster has Ronald Reagan carrying Margaret Thatcher away from a nuclear explosion, along with a suitable caption of course.

Everything sold at the Tory fundraiser made thousands more than the value.

The event is expected to make £2 million for the Tory party.

Seats at tables of Cabinet Ministers cost more presumably as the donors pay for their ears and listening time too.

As the Tory government prepare to announce yet more austerity for the majority of the people in the UK, there will be a spring budget remember.

Take a look at this from last year's Tory fund raising event:

In 2014 Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of a former ally of Vladimir Putin, paid £160,000 for a game of tennis with Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and Mr Cameron.

The prime minister initially rejected calls to pay back the donation from the Russian oligarch, but later backed down after fierce criticism and no money changed hands.Last year a shoe-shopping session with Theresa May was auctioned off for just over £17,000. The trip involved the Home Secretary helping the winning bidding select and buy shoes at a Bond Street department store.

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